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THE SPACE BETWEEN HOPELESSNESS AND FOREVER
by
Ann Elizabeth Trondson
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF FINE ARTS
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Ann Elizabeth Trondson

Telling stories is one of the core foundations to experiencing and re-experiencing life. It can explain where we have been, who we are and where we are going -- as Joan Didion says "We tell ourselves stories in order to live."; In "Against Interpretation" Susan Sontag proposes that an artworks interpretation is within the individual's experience. Simply put, instead of art that has a certain context (citing philosophical and intellectual references), which the viewer and the artist must understand to interpret, Sontag instead proposes that art can be experienced for what it is, in such a way that experience is the main criteria. Sontag suggests an activation of interpretation; what is present and what is happening: the 'here and now'. This art can be experienced within the possibilities that every individual interpretation of a work of art is open and bound by the viewer's participation.

THE SPACE BETWEEN HOPELESSNESS AND FOREVER
by
Ann Elizabeth Trondson
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF FINE ARTS
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Ann Elizabeth Trondson